Munira Mirza Quotes

Casa amigos means house of friends and that's how we work. We have lunch together every day; a couple of times a week we have drinks. There are no assigned desks - everyone just moves around. It's very social and creative.

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

We're the Tom Tom Club and our studio is the Clubhouse. It a way of making it a little more personal.

For me, the most fun times in this office are when we're listening to music. That's what you signed up for, not to just make deals.

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because it's good for them, because it's the vegetables that they should eat and the culture shot that they should get... It's about experience and building community and catalyzing dialogue and bringing people together.

As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?

When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.

I love working with Darren Lynn Bousman. He is such a cool director with really great ideas.

That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.

Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.

I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.

I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about.

Surely in a world of email, video conferencing and virtual assistants, isn't being expected to show up at the office extremely anachronistic? Yet to date it seems that where one works does matter. That creativity and innovation do feed off physical interactions between people.

My district goes a long ways across the southern part of Ohio, so just the opportunity to get to know so many people is a highlight itself, win or lose.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

We have stopped making communities in which people want to live and are making communities where people drive through.

I wanted to make a place for filmmakers and artists to come and 'do their stuff,' but I didn't expect it to have had the impact that it has.

Founders Den provides the kind of collaborative and creative atmosphere to foster new ideas not only for emerging new businesses, but government as well.

A creative space is an important thing. There are so many studios that feel like doctor's offices in Nashville. I couldn't write there.

For Mike Mills, I learned that having dance parties and crying with your cast does not make you a weak director, it makes you a strong director.

I keep a band of great young people around me, and we're not musically restrained. It's not about 'Let's do it correct' but 'Let's do it right.'